Amjad Tarsin – Use Your Imagination to Gain Greatness & Closeness in Your Prayer

This is a statement of hatimal Assam, one of the great pious

predecessors of Ali Allahu Anhu. And someone once asked him about

his prayer. So he said, when the time for prayer enters Asmaa WTO,

I performed the wudu well fully covering all the limbs and doing

it with presence of heart and intentionality and recognizing

that this is the key into the prayer. And I came, and I come to

the pray, the place where I am going to pray, and I actually sit

there. I'm going to talk about this shortly. I sit there until I

am collected,

that I become collected, summa, akumu, Ina, salati. Then I stand

to prayer. So then I place the karda. And this is a way of using

our imagination in a way that is useful and beneficial, especially

spiritually. Is to use the faculty of imagination for things like

this, he says. Then I place the karba before my very eyes,

imagining it says, If I'm standing right in front of the car, and I

place the srira that goes over hellfire, the traverse that goes

over hellfire. I place it at my feet, so as if I can see it at my

feet, and I imagine paradise to my right, and I imagine the fire to

my left, and I imagine the Angel of Death standing behind me.

And I think and ponder deeply that this will be my final prayer.

Then I stand and pray, and I am between the state of hope and

fear, so I begin the prayer, and I say Allahu Akbar, and I recite the

Quran with tarti Full recitation, giving each of the letters, it's

right, and reciting properly and with reverence. And then when I go

into rukur, the bowing position, I do so with humility. And when I go

into prostration, I prostrate with reverential fear, with this

pushur. And you know, when I sit in the position.

I do so with sincerity, and when I try to have sincerity of heart,

and when I finish the prayer, I do not know, has it been accepted

from me or not?

Even after all of that, I still remain in a state between hope and

fear. Is it accepted or not?

And Sayyidina, Abdullah ibn Al Abu Asmaa anhuma, he said, raka atani,

muktaslidatani, feetrun, minkayami, lahila Tin walabu sa

hin, he says, two rakats that you perform with you know well that

you're not rushed and hasty and completing that, but even muktasi,

that is that they're not very long, and they're not rushed, just

even two moderate arakas that are not very long, that you pray while

you are reflecting and pondering what you're reciting and thinking

about your state with Allah subhanahu wa and all of the things

associated with the prayer is better for you than standing up

the entire night in prayer and your heart is heedless. Just two

brief, moderate rakais with reflection are better than an

entire night where your heart is heedless. So we have to have now

the great

they have quality and quantity.

But for us, sometimes people think that quantity alone is sufficient.

But you want quality. We want quality. And when we have when we

focus on that, then when we start to access the real fruits of the

Salah, then we want more of it, and quantity starts to become very

naturally accessible and desirable to us.